SAN FRANCISCO - It's a simple yet increasingly popular mixture of classroom and clubroom, where young and experienced lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - An injured prison inmate who claims workers dropped him to the ground as they tried to load him into an ambul...

RIVERSIDE - On a family trip to Yosemite in 1973, Jim Heiting first confronted the notion that he might have a drinking probl...

SIMI VALLEY - The case of an elementary school student molested by a teen-age girl raised a novel legal issue: Could the scho...

As Gov. Gray Davis prepares to make his first judicial appointments, the State Bar panel now completing its first evaluations...

WASHINGTON - In its recently completed 1998-99 term, the Supreme Court generated only 75 signed opinions - 16 fewer than last...

Some legal employers must offer hamburger instead of steak By Theda C. Snyder To get and keep full-time employees you have to...

By Michael M. Berger Although the courts have not been kind to landlords in recent years, the landlords finally won one in Ga...

^^Bench Press^^ It's All Greek Political correctness is sometimes enough to get one's Irish up By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. My f...

Construction of the multimillion-dollar Playa Vista development at the Ballona Wetlands will continue in the wake of another ...

A businessman who claims he was attacked in jail after he wrongly was arrested on an expired or false warrant has sued the ci...

A lawsuit against the now-defunct Solish, Jordan, Arbiter & Weiner and one of its former senior partners, who was accused...

Several divisions of Woodland Hills-based Litton Industries agreed Wednesday to pay $18.5 million after pleading guilty to ch...

Ruling that any failure by prosecutors to present the grand jury with exculpatory evidence was not prejudicial to the defendan...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Thai lawmaker extradited in 1996 to face marijuana smuggling charges in the United States is now fre...

It's hard to say what corporate lawyers would be doing today had Intel not invented the microprocessor in the 1970s. One thin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Removing a possible roadblock toward the mediation of Proposition 187, the California Supreme Court on Wednes...

CHICO - About 18 months ago, when Barbara Roberts donned her black robe, took her wooden gavel and ascended to the bench, she...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge echoed jurors' sentiments and sentenced serial killer Charles Ng to death W...

In a case that has sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal ...

By Karl E. Geier On May 18, the 1st District Court of Appeal refused to follow the 4th District's decade-old decision in Famil...

Prosecutors have charged 45 people, including two Los Angeles attorneys, in what State Insurance Commissioner Charles Quacken...

By Joseph R. Giannini The California Supreme Court's decision in Warden v. State Bar, S060702 (argued June 2, 1999), will be ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A highly critical report on the first stage of San Francisco's 2-year-old effort to reform the city's embattl...

Who says a tough 15-year-old gang member in Juvenile Hall for some serious offenses doesn't enjoy reading "Old Yeller" or "Ch...

After years of planning, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding Tuesday to build a new courthouse in Ch...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County gang prosecutor, accused of using confidential information obtained through his office to aid a ...

SACRAMENTO - California police officers and their chiefs are waging a quiet but high-stakes Capitol battle that could have br...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ford Motor Co. misled regulators in two federal inquiries of widespread stalling problems affecting millions ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved spending more than $1 million Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed by a city resident who ...